#silos — Public Fediverse posts

*Do you have four ants, and counting, roaming in the kitchen, or do you have several thousand ants you're not looking for #RogueAI #silos

Having a shared pool of hashtags is a way of creating social cohesion and action - a way for people to find each other and talk across #silos. It is a #DIY “search” system, but only if people actually use and share the language.

The #OMN use of hashtags is mostly #nothingnew. I take existing ideas, connect them to outcomes, and create shorthand for conversations that already exist. Examples:

#deathcult = neoliberalism, with the understanding of the real-world outcomes. The metaphor connects a political mindset with its consequences. The historical reference comes from the Irish potato famine - reminder of what happens when a mindset becomes #mainstreaming and millions of people are treated as expendable.

#Geekproblem = a critique of a strand of 20th-century modernism when technical thinking becomes dogmatic. The problem is not “geeks” or technology itself - there is a good side to modernism. The problem is losing the social nuance and turning everything into a technical problem.

#stupidindividualism = thinking about the balance between self and society. It is an outcome of the #deathcult and a symptom of the #geekproblem - the idea that everything can be reduced to isolated individuals instead of relationships and communities.

Could go on…

The point is not the hashtag itself. The point is building shared language, so people recognise patterns, connect ideas and work across the current #blocking silos.

#OMN #4opens #openweb

I'm glad I'm basically buying every single new release from Satatuhatta. If not, I probably wouldn't have discovered this really cool debut album from Silos.

Experimental electronic music mixed with acoustic sound sources, with arcane themes? Sometimes there are beats, but not the wrong way.

https://satatuhatta.bandcamp.com/album/starving-of-lesser-desires

#experimental #industrial #electronic #Satatuhatta #nowPlaying #Silos

"As a Fed governor, Warsh made it clear that he sees the Fed’s role as one that deals exclusively with monetary policy and cautioned against the central bank slipping into “fiscal” territory – tax and spending decisions usually taken by the government."

Because as everyone knows, treating problems with complex, interacting functions by treating the functions as independent #silos with their own solutions is the best way to solve the problem. #Sheesh

Trump’s ideal choice to push Fed to cut interest rates
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/21/kevin-warsh-trump-federal-reserve?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#economy

Acidentes em silos de armazenagem matam mais de seis trabalhadores por mês no Brasil

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://iclnoticias.com.br/acidentes-silos-matam-trabalhadores-brasil/

I had to wait a couple of nights to get this lined up right, but I was staying there anyway.

Sunset behind the silos at Cowell, South Australia.

© All Rights Reserved by Kev Peirce.

#Photo #Photography #Australia #SouthAustralia #silo #silos #sunset #cowell

The grain silos at Wirrulla. South Australia.

I took this one on my Google Pixel 7 Pro. I was quite surprised how well it came out.

© All Rights Reserved by Kev Peirce.

#Photo #Photography #Australia #SouthAustralia #silo #silos #Wirrulla #GrainSilos #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #EyrePeninsula #AustralianLandscape

I took this photo some years ago when these were the old silos. Now it has been converted into a hotel.

Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

© All Rights Reserved by Kev Peirce.

#Photo #Photography #Australia #Tasmania #Silos #BlackAndWhite #Launceston #IndustrialArchitecture #Monochrome #LandscapePhotography

The dysfunctional shift in web #discovery:
"Older #search models emphasised linking between sources, context and historical continuity, #distributed identity across the web. Newer models emphasise platform-contained #identity, engagement signals controlled by corporate ecosystems and algorithmic filtering based on opaque commercial criteria. This shift weakens the connective tissue of the #openweb. Instead of a web made from links, we get #silos made from #platforms."

https://hamishcampbell.com/disappearing-from-search-a-personal-story-about-visibility-dotcons-and-the-shrinking-openweb/

"Let's end the era of #silos. I mean, isn't it fucking weird how you have to care which network someone is using if you want to talk to them? Instead of just deciding who you want to talk to?

The fact that you have to figure out whether the discussion you're trying to join is on Twitter or Bluesky, Mastodon or Instagram – that is just the most Prodigy/AOL/Compuserve-ass way of running a digital world. I mean, 1990 called and they want their walled gardens back"

The Best Big Media Merger Is No Merger At All

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/the-best-big-media-merger-is-no-merger-at-all/

Why silos restrict scale -- and what to do about it [Q&A] #QandA #Silos

https://betanews.com/2025/12/15/why-silos-restrict-scale-and-what-to-do-about-it-qa/

19th century grain and flour mill no longer in use.

Bank of the Cuyahoga River, downtown Cleveland, OH.

November, 2025.

#photography #cleveland #ohio #brownfield #silos

I quit Instagram and this is why. https://crystaltouchton.com/deletedinstagram/ #indieweb #blogchallenge #blog #socialmedia #siloquit #silos #deleteinstagram #instagram #100days #100daychallenge

How to build silos and decrease collaboration (on purpose)

https://www.rubick.com/how-to-build-silos-and-decrease-collaboration/

#HackerNews #How #to #build #silos #and #decrease #collaboration #(on #purpose) #silos #collaboration #workplace #culture #team #dynamics #strategy

Es gibt für #NGOs (und alle anderen) schon gangbare Wege
raus aus den #Silos der großen #Plattformen und rein ins #Fediverse 🌌

1.) #Mastodon-, #PeerTube-, #Pixelfed-, #Loops- oder-oder-oder-Account eröffnen
2.) das Logo des Fediverse-Accounts auf die eigene Internet-Seite setzen
3.) das Logo des Fediverse-Accounts ganz nach vorne setzen → #Platz1fürMastodon
4.) die Präsenz im Fediverse bei den Followers bewerben
5.) die Kommunikation im Fediverse priorisieren
6.) die Logos der großen Plattformen von der eigenen Seite entfernen
7.) sich aus den großen Plattformen immer mehr und schließlich ganz zurückziehen
👉 Und schon ist die digitale #Souveränität erfolgreich etabliert. 👈

Viel Erfolg mit der Veranstaltung,
@digiges @rahel_estermann @GrueneCH @kire @lichtspiel

Shadows and Steel. An iconic structure against a stark sky.

Wirrulla, South Australia.

Photographed and edited by Kev.

© All Rights Reserved by 2 Peeps and a Camera.

#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #BlackAndWhite #AustralianArchitecture #Silos #Wirrulla #SouthAustralia #GrainElevator #Monochrome

I got this earlier, but for Bandcamp Friday, I'm going to recommend Starset's new album Silos. https://starset.bandcamp.com/album/silos

It's very good, if you like a spacy harder rock sound.

Stand out tracks for me?

Dark Things: https://song.link/s/6oxfnbwSvVvl8FhqojHfd5

Dystopia (which I've been obsessed with for a while now): https://song.link/s/7jJ5zfsqNO1o85PlepGLxm

#Music #BandcampFriday #Silos #Starset #Bandcamp

Re-Boosting this in honor of the release of their full length album, Silos.

#Music #Silos #Starset

Okay, so I am listening to Starset's new album Silos directly in order and...I really get it more now. I like it.

Check it out on Bandcamp. https://starset.bandcamp.com/album/silos

Or stream it on your favorite platform here: https://album.link/i/1834016451

#Bandcamp #Starset #NewMusic #Silos #Music #AltRock

Steel and stillness - Launceston’s old grain towers mirrored in quiet waters.

Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

Photographed and edited by Kev.

© All Rights Reserved by 2 Peeps and a Camera

#photography #photo #silos #tasmania #australia #river #2peepsandacamera

Shine Bright Saginaw Mural in Saginaw, Michigan

Soaring mural splashed across 70-year-old silos in Michigan.#silos #murals #section-Atlas
Shine Bright Saginaw Mural

Building Alt/Grassroots Media Networks to Challenge and Widen Traditional Media

The current ecosystem of alternative and grassroots media is too narrow in its imagination of what media could, and should, be. There’s a persistent naivety or, in some cases, a self-serving dishonesty. Many of the most “successful” progressive media groups continue to mimic #traditionalmedia without understanding, or addressing, the fact that they do not control their distribution. In effect, they’re renting space in someone else’s empire.

This is not just a mistake. It’s the […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/building-alt-grassroots-media-networks-to-challenge-and-widen-traditional-media/

🎩🎭 Oh no, not the dreaded silos! Clearly, without them, #academia would be a #utopia of rainbows and unicorns 🦄. But hey, who needs efficient information sharing when you can have endless #meetings instead? 📚💼
https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/you-say-silo-as-if-it-were-a-bad #silos #informationSharing #efficiency #HackerNews #ngated

Wir teilen die Sorgen des Ministerpräsidenten von Schleswig-Holstein gegenüber den Gefahren der #socialmedia Nutzung
👉 https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/schleswig-holstein/Ministerpraesident-Guenther-Social-Media-Verbot-fuer-unter-16-Jaehrige,guenther1842.html

In unserem Engagement für #Mastodon und das #Fediverse merken wir täglich, wie schwer es ist, Nutzer:innen aus den #Silos der großen Plattformen zu befreien 🔐🔗. #Meta, #TikTok und #YouTube gestalten ihre Seiten mit psychologischen Kniffs so geschickt, dass manche eine Sucht entwickeln.

Die Präsenz von öffentlichen Einrichtungen auf Mastodon 🐘 wie
@kieluni @gerichteSH @landesbibliothek @landesregierung @neuwittenbek @CIO
gibt ein gutes Beispiel, wie wir uns davon unabhängig machen können.

Weiter so, Schleswig-Holstein! 👏
Möge die Instanz https://social.schleswig-holstein.de doch allen Ämtern und Behörden 👩‍💻 bei Euch einen Mastodon-Account einrichten.

#AlleInsFediverse #SaveSocial

In March, #Trump issued an #ExecutiveOrder aiming to eliminate the #data #silos that keep everything separate. Historically, much of the data collected by the govt had been heavily compartmentalized & secured; even for those legally authorized to see sensitive data, requesting access for use by another govt agency is typically a painful process that requires justifying what you need, why you need it, & proving that it is used for those purposes only. Not so under Trump.

#law #privacy #InfoSec